Arrested development episodes

Five long years after Arrested Development’s Netflix revival, creator Mitch Hurwitz has given the polarizing season four a “remix,” subtitled Fateful Consequences. Fifteen, single-focus episodes became 22 recut, traditional-sitcom episodes... which is a lot of TV to watch before Arrested Development season five debuts on May 29. Even if you saw the original batch of episodes, the story of season four is still tightly wound and purposefully convoluted, and nobody would blame you for forgetting almost everything that happened. That said, knowing Arrested’s knack for callbacks, it would be unwise to go into the new season without a clue where the show’s been before. In preparation for season five, we sat through all 22 episodes of the remix and took scrupulous notes. Here’s everything you need to know about the Bluths, broken down by family member, before watching season five of Arrested Development. Michael Bluth Michael (Jason Bateman) has some of … [Read more...] about Everything you need to remember about Arrested Development before season 5

Arrested Development’s original fourth season is still streaming on Netflix, but it takes a little bit of detective work to find it. Netflix debuted Arrested Development’s newly remixed fourth season today, and although it isn’t the only available option for Netflix subscribers, it is by far the most visible one. The remixed version re-edits the original 15, single character-focused episodes from 2013’s fourth season and turns them into 22 chronological episodes, each including a majority of the cast. If subscribers click play on Arrested Development’s fourth season from the platform’s main landing page, the remixed version will automatically start. Netflix subscribers have to go to the show’s official page and click on the “trailers and more” section to find the original cut of the fourth season. Netflix is clearly making it more difficult for people to watch the original fourth season, seemingly hoping that subscribers tune into … [Read more...] about Netflix is hiding Arrested Development’s original fourth season

It turns out that making a stand-alone Han Solo movie was a good idea after all, because now we have the above video of Ron Howard, director of Solo: A Star Wars Story, narrating Episode IV: A New Hope, Arrested Development-style. Howard is, of course, the narrator (and executive producer) of Arrested Development, the funniest TV sitcom of all time. In a new episode of Lucasfilm’s The Star Wars Show, Howard gives the Skywalker family the same narrative treatment he gave the Bluths, summarizing their interfamilial conflict and, uh, occasional incestuous relationships. “Arrested Development: Star Wars with Ron Howard” stays faithful to the former Fox sitcom — which is coming back to Netflix this weekend for a remixed season four and, soon, season five — and delivers some pretty good gags. Any fan of Arrested Development and/or Star Wars owes it a few minutes of their day. Solo: A Star Wars Story is coming to theaters May 25. … [Read more...] about Star Wars narrated by Ron Howard is perfect

Avengers: Infinity War is packed to the gills with characters — which comes as no surprise to anyone who’s been watching the Marvel Cinematic Universe grow over the last 10 years. You’ll have to go see the film if you want to know which superheroes show up in Infinity War, because we’re not about to spoil that for you. But as we discovered during our screening of the film, going into Infinity War blind may not ensure that you’ll catch every character the first time around. [Below is the lightest Avengers: Infinity War spoiler ever. Promise. But here’s your spoiler warning, for safety.] At the tail-end of the film’s credits (just before the post-credits scene), there’s a bunch of the usual courtesy legalese. Y’know, “Coca-Cola appears courtesy of The Coca-Cola Company;” that sort of thing. Here’s (a paraphrase of) the one that surprised us: “Character from Arrested Development appears courtesy of 20th Century … [Read more...] about You probably missed Avengers: Infinity War’s weirdest Easter egg

Hear ye, assemble and mourn, for alas it has happened again. Yes, friends, it has come time for another undeserving name to be nailed to the rotting, blood spattered monument to Amazing TV Shows Cancelled Before Their Time. And it is, once again, all your fault. Possibly. Either way, I implore you to gather for a moment, while I explain this latest great tragedy, struggling as I do to affix the name ‘Lady Dynamite’ beneath the likes of Hannibal, Firefly, Pushing Daisies, and Deadwood, my eyes once more blurred with tears.Netflix comedy Lady Dynamite, you see, isn’t just good, fresh, brave, and a relentless purveyor of blindsiding, ‘Oh fuck help me I’m actually dying no really help me I’m serious’ laughter. It is all of those things, of course, but it is also a show with a ludicrous pedigree of comic talent behind it. It had producers responsible for Arrested Development and South Park. It had writers from Parks and Recreation. It had … [Read more...] about Netflix recently cancelled another underappreciated ‘best sitcom ever’… and it’s (probably) your fault